What is self love?
It’s not just spa dates and candle lit baths.
It’s not just mani-pedis and facemasks.
It’s not just what the media claims it to be,
Halimat Olaniyan
MiC Contributor
MIC
After Linh Dinh
let us be savages this afternoon.
primitive folk,
we lap up congee then pork
floss for dessert.
As a child, my brother and I ran home from school every day so we wouldn’t miss any of our favorite shows.
My best feminist. I really like that saying. Thanks @seekrefugeco for coming up with that and reminding me of what I have to celebrate this Valentine’s Day. On this 14th of February, I want to highlight 14 of the women that without, I don’t know what, where, or who I’d be.
What is self love?
It’s not just spa dates and candle lit baths.
It’s not just mani-pedis and facemasks.
It’s not just what the media claims it to be,
But it can be all of that too.
In fact, it’s whatever you want and need it to be.
You might have seen some girls who wrap a piece of cloth around their heads. The cloth (called hijab or tudung or kerudung) covers some parts of their bodies – hair, ears and sometimes neck.
I am American.
But deep down I feel and know,
I’m not American enough.
They say that
Because of my looks,
When I was little, I used to be one of those girls who wished that they I were white. My parents immigrated to the States in the 90s, having previously lived under Communist rule in China.
